Good news for Kerry: Mr. Gephardt, who dropped out of the presidential race after a fourth-place finish in Iowa, planned to put his support behind Mr. Kerry today in Warren, Mich., Democrats said, giving the senator a powerful boost with the industrial unions and blue-collar workers important in the Michigan caucuses tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see how much of Gephardt's base follows him. Speaking of which, this is interesting as well: ...in New York, where he raised more than $750,000 at a fund-raiser, Mr. Kerry was endorsed by Speaker Sheldon Silver of the State Assembly, Comptroller Alan Hevesi and Betsy Gotbaum, the New York City public advocate, all of whom previously supported Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut. I'd like to know what this means: At a Portland rally, a heckler interrupted Mr. Kerry's speech, shouting, "How about your vote for the war, and the Patriot Act and for John Ashcroft?" Mr. Kerry, who voted against Mr. Ashcroft's confirmation as attorney general, shot back, "I don't run away from anything — I'll never run away from those votes."